An unusually warm day in November in Belgrade gave me the excuse to take a day trip to a small town in central Serbia, called Topola. I had always wanted to go and visit this charming town to see its church of St George which is Read more…
A warm November weekend in Belgrade brought a huge number of people out to visit Avala, a mountain and National Park 16 km from Belgrade. The reason for the huge number of visitors was the newly opened Avala Tower, one of Belgrade’s landmarks, which has been restored and reopened in Read more…
The English have pubs, the French their cafes, Italians their ice cream parlours, the Greek Tavernas and we, Serbians, have Kafanas or second homes as we spend more time there than at home. The word Kafana is derived from the Turkish kahvehane (“coffee house”) which Read more…
Am I the only Yugoslavian who hasn’t visited the Flower House, the resting place of the last President of Yugoslavia, Tito? I was born and brought up under liberal communism and I should be grateful to him – Tito. But I was never confirmed into Tito’s youth Read more…
Next door to the Gallery of Matica Serbia there is the fascinating Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection of Art. Who is Pavle Beljanski? Pavle Beljanski was born in a sleepy town on the Danube River, Veliko Gradiste, in Serbia, in 1892, into a respectable middle-class family. After Read more…
His posture was like Fagin’s from Oliver Twist, only he was collecting bus tickets not money. “If we get refused entry I’ll blame you!“ he said, not making eye contact. I began to calculate the number of passengers on the bus times the cost of the ticket Read more…
Walk to the lower part of Kalamegdan Fortress passing the Nebojsa Tower which used to be a prison during the Turkish occupation and which today is a museum dedicated to the Greek revolutionary Rigas Feraio, strangled by the Turks here and thrown into the Danube. Not Read more…
If you want to eat healthy wholesome meat dishes, the best time to visit Serbia is the winter – the amount of tempting homemade food makes you fat just by looking at it! One of the most popular winter dishes is stuffed cabbage leaves and I Read more…
Mathematical formulas are my forte, and I can solve most daily riddles with ease. The amount spent on my weekly shop are in my head before reaching the checkout desk, surprising the cashier with my accuracy. Numbers were my friends. Until now. Sitting in front of Read more…
“I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.” Alain de Botton How many times have you been seduced by reading an article on the 10 best things to do at the destination you always wanted to see? The flawless writing full of Read more…